enjoyed it a lot!
andrew
On 16 September 2015 at 06:13, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Not the usual pet, nor the usual portrait, Bill; but it sees her…
>
> Doug
> On Sep 15, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Lizard
> >
> > Curled up before the fire,
> > Lizard mouthed pistachios,
> > sending shells skidding
> > across the cottage floor,
> >
> > slurped up curries,
> > even ripe tomatoes,
> > withdrawing her tongue
> > and upturning brown eyes
> >
> > when she finished. Named
> > after flame-haired Bombers
> > goal sneak Alan Ezard,
> > Red Heeler Lizard sadly
> >
> > no match for a real reptile.
> > Casualty of a King Brown,
> > she lies uncurled beneath
> > a peach tree in Markwood.
> >
> > bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
>
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